Deb Kiner | dkiner@pennlive.com

About Me:

Content Administrator at Pennlive.com/The Patriot-News. Worked here since 1987 as reporter, copy editor, paginator, weeklies editor. Graduate of Lock Haven University. Live in Perry County, from Ephrata in Lancaster County.

Three million Naval Reserve sailors were demobilized within a year after Victory over Japan Day. Here, sailors in 1946 show their honorable discharge papers outside a separation center. (Photo from www.navyreservecentennial.com)

1944. The famous 'Golden Thirteen' were the first African-American servicemen to complete officer training in the Naval Reserve. Most of them had been to college, some had advanced degrees, most had been athletes and all had exemplary service records. (Photo from www.navyreservecentennial.com)

1941. Naval Reserve sailors from Minnesota on the USS Ward pose for a picture after sinking a Japanese mini-submarine near the entrance of Pearl Harbor just prior to the Japanese air attack on Dec. 7. (Photo from www.navyreservecentennial.com)